Acquisition Information

Zelda Kingoff was born 19 January 1932 in Greenville, South Carolina, to Joseph Kingoff and Alice Heiner Kingoff. The family
moved to Richmond while she was a teenager and she attended Richmond public schools. Kingoff graduated from Marjorie Webster
Junior College in 1952 and from Sally Tompkins School of Nursing in 1963. She married Martin Stanford Nordlinger (1930-2002)
24 December 1963. Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger was a lobbyist to the Virginia general assembly from 1971 to 1976, a free lance
writer, and active in the women's movement. She was a co-founder of the Richmond chapter of the National Organization for
Women in 1971. Nordlinger was also active in the National Women's Political Caucus and the Virginia Women's Political Caucus.
Nordlinger had two children from a previous marriage and two daughters with Martin Nordlinger. Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger died
18 March 2008 in Richmond, Virginia.

Journals, 1985-2008, of Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger (1932-2008) of Richmond, Virginia, consisting of abstracts of books, articles,
columns, reviews, and other writings from newspapers, magazines, books, and essays covering a wide range of topics including
women and society; sex, sexual roles, and sexual violence; violence, including gang, gun, and drug violence; politics, including
finance and corruption; health care costs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; liberalism and conservatism;
the military; religion, including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; terrorism; Richmond and Virginia; and other subjects.